Individual work-holder attachment for slicing-machines



A. M. DEMUTH. INDIVIDUAL WORK HOLDER ATTACHMENT FOR SLICING MACHINLS.

APPLICATION FILED .IAN.30, I919- IIENEWED JULY SI. I920. I 1,378,952.

Patented Apr. 5, 1921.

3 SHEETS-SHEET l- IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII A.-M. DEMUTH.' INDIVIDUAL WORK HOLDER ATTACHMENT FOR SLICING MACHIN APPLICATION FILED .IAN.30| 1-919. RENEWED 1,373,952.

JULY 31, 1920 Patented Apr. '5, 1921.

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A. M. DEMUTH. INDIVIDUAL WORK HOLDER ATTACHMENT FOR SLICING MACHINES. APPLICATION FJLE'D .'AN.30. 1919. RENEWED JULY 31. 1920.

Patented Apr. 5, 1921.

3 SHEETSSHEET 3- ALFRED M. DEMU'IH, or CHICAGO, ILLINoIs, AssIGNoa T0 JOHN A. KELLY, or

onroeoo, ILLINOIS.

INDIVIDUAL WORK-HOLDER ATTACHMENT FOR SIJICI1\TGr-IVIAfXEIIINES.-

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 5, 1921.

Application filed January 30, 1919, Serial No. 274,013. Renewed July 31, 1920. Serial No. 400,567.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, ALFRED M. DEMUTH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Individual lVork- Holder Attachments for Slicing-Machines. of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates in general to improvements in slicing machines, but more particularly relates to an improved article support adapted to rest upon or be connected with the feeding plate of the machine so that the uprights and pins or prongs carried by the feeding plate will not interfere with the ready attachment or removal of the supplemental support, thereby adapting the article support for an individual article holder, rendering it unnecessary to remove the article from the support after being once placed thereon.

Heretofore considerable difficulty and inconvenience has been experienced with slicing machines in that after an article has once been removed'it is impossible to place the same into the machine again so that the first few slices will be unbroken and of a uniform thickness. Furthermore, unsanitary conditions are accentuated by the'constant handling of the article which is necessary to change from one article to another.

To overcome these objections and difficulties and to provide an improved attachment of this character with which the clamping bar now employed in slicing machines will cooperate, is another object of the present invention.

A. further object is to provide an improved article support of this character which may be shaped from a single piece of sheet material and in one operation.

To the attainment of these ends and the accomplishment of other new and useful objects as will appear, the invention consists in the features of novelty in substan tially the construction, combination and arrangement of the several parts hereinafter more fully described and claimed and shown 7 in the accompanying drawings illustrating this invention and in which- Figure 1 is an elevation of a portion of a slicing machine having an attachment connected therewith and constructed in accord- I ance with the principles of this invention,

F1 2 1s a sectional view as taken on line 22 ig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the lndlyidual work holder attachment.

F g. 4 is an end elevation of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a transverse vertical section of the attachment showing a different manner of securing the impalement elements thereto.

F ig. 6 is a view similar to Fig. 3 of'a mod fied form of the invention.

Fig]? 7 is asectional view taken on line 7-7 ig. 6.

Referring more particularly to the draw-. ngs'thenumeral 1O designates a reciprocatlng carrier adjacent the edge 11' of which the k n1fe 12 operates. Mounted upon the carrler 10 is a feeding table 13 having uprights 14 15 projecting thereabove and upon wh1ch uprights a clamping bar 16 operates. The feeding table 13 is adapted for bodily reciprocating movement with the carrier 10 and is also adapted for an intermittent forward movement with relation to the carrier 10, as is usual in machines of this character.

The attachment or individual work holder or support of the present invention embodies a body portion 17 having its sides 18 deflected at an angle thereto to project thereabove for any desired or suitable distance, the extremities of these deflected portions 18 are bent laterally outwardly as at 19. .Theupwardly deflected portions 18 and the laterally deflected portions 19, preferably terminate short of the forward edge 20 of the body portion or base of the attachment, and an open recess 21 is provided in the forward end of the portion-19, to open I through the said end. 7

The forward edge of the base or body of the supportis provided with a plurality of recesses QZopening through said edge and a plurality of slots or openings 23-24.25 are provided through the body of the support, intermediate the forward and rear edges thereof.

impalement elements 26 are connected with the body portion 17 of the attachment and within theconfines of its edges. These elements 26 may be formed in any desired or suitable manner. As shown in Figs- 3 and a they maybe formed as prongs out from the body portion and deflected as shown to project upwardly so that they will impale the article when the latter is placed upon the support. If desired however these impalement elements may be formed separately as at 27 and secured to the support in any suitable manner. 7

Handles 28 by means of which the support may be transported or attached to and removed from the machine may be provided, and these handles may be formed in any suitable manner either integrally therewith or separately and attached thereto. If formed integrally, they may be formed from the laterally deflected portions 19 of the support by cutting a portion of the support and shaping the cut portions into handles as shown in Fig. 3.

In use the attachment may be placed in the machine and upon the feeding table 13 by grasping the handles 28 and positioning the forward edge 20 so that the impalement elements 29 which are carried by the feeding table 13 adjacent its for ward edge, will enter the recesses 22 and the uprights 14-15 will enter the respective recesses or seats 21. When in this position the slots or openings 23-24-25 will be respectively positioned over the impalement elements 30-31-32 which are usually carried by the feeding table 13. The handles 28 may then be released so that the attachment will rest upon the feeding table 13 and will be held against accidental displacement with respect thereto by means of the recesses and slots cooperating with the impalement elements 29-30-31-32 carried by the feeding table, and also by means of the upwardly deflected walls 18 of the attachment cooperating with the respective shoulders 33 of the feeding table 13.

lVhen in position, the article may then be placed upon the supplemental support so that the elements 26 will impale the article and the clamping bar 26 may then be lowered upon the uprights 14-15 so as to engage and clamp the article.

The body of the attachment or supplemental support may be of any desired thickness and may be of such a-size as to permit the extremities of the impalement elements 29-30-31-32 to project thereabove so as to also engage the article, or may be of a suitable thickness as to prevent these impalement elements which are carried by the feeding table 13 from engaging the article when the attachment is in position. The attachment is also constructed of a single piece of sheet material and when constructed in the manner as shown in Fig. 3 may be bent into shape and all parts thereof formed in a single operation.

When it is desired -to remove the article from the machine'to be replaced by another article, all that is necessary is to raise the clamping bar 18 on the uprights 14-45 when the supplemental support may be grasped by the handles 28 and lifted bodily, with the article thereon from the machine, thereby serving as an individual article holder and rendering it unnecessary to handle the article and also insuring the proper positioning of the article and support back into the machine so that the first fewslices will be unbroken and of a uniform thickness. The upwardly projecting walls 18 along the sides of the support also serve as a means for holding the article in proper position.

In the form of the invention shown in Figs. 6 and 7 a portion of the body 17 of the holder is cut away on opposite sides of its center and bent upwardly as at 33 to form upwardly projecting curved walls on opposite sides of the impalement elements. These walls cooperate with the impalement elements to hold the article against displacement.

If desired the edges of the walls 33 may be cut away as at 34': so as not to interfere with the operation of the clamping element 13, in the event that it is necessary tobring the clampmg element in close proxlmlty to the holder.

In addition to the impalement elements 26, other impalement elements 35 may be provided which may also be cut from the. body 17 and deflected upwardly. These impalement elements 35 are so shaped that their face will be arranged transversely with respect to the face of the impalement elements 26 and all of the elements cooperate to form a locking means for holding the article in position.

With this improvement it will be manifest that any number of these supplemental holders or work supports may be provided to be interchanged in the machine and the articles may be interchanged withouthandling the article.

It will be manifest that this improved individual work holder can be readily applied to any machine now' on the market without altering in the slightest degree the construction of any of the parts of the slicing machine.

While the preferred form has been herein shown and described, it is to be understood that various changes may be made in the details of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts without departing from thespirit of this invention. I

What is claimed as new is 1. A device of the character described, embodying a main support, an upright connected therewith, a supplemental support, and a clamping element movable upon the upright and adapted to cooperate with the supplemental support, said supplemental sup-' port being attachable and removable at will and while the said clamping member is connected with the upright. V

2. A device of the character described, embodying a main support, an upright connected therewith, a supplemental support, and a clamping element movable upon the upright and adapted to cooperate with the sup plemental support, said supplemental support being attachable and removable at will and while the said clamping member is connected with the upright, the said supplemental support being shaped from a single piece of sheet material.

3. In combination, a slicing machine embodying a main article support, impalement elements projecting thereabove, an upright extending above the support, a supplemental support, and a clamping element adapted to cooperate with the supplemental support, said supplemental support being adapted to be placed upon and removed from the main support at will and while the clamping member is on the upright, said supplemental support being provided with portions shaped to receive the impalement elements which are connected with the main support.

4:. In combination, a slicing machine embodying a main article support, impalement elements projecting thereabove, an upright extending above the support, a supplemental support, and a clamping element adapted to cooperate with the supplemental support, and provisions whereby said supplemental support may be placed upon the main support at will and while the clamping member is on the upright, the said provisions em-' bodying an open seat upon the supplemental support adapted to receive the upright.

5. In combination, a slicing machine embodying a main article support, impalement elements projecting thereabove, an upright extending above the support, a clamping element movable upon the upright, a supplemental support with which the clamping element is adapted to cooperate, and provisions whereby the supplemental support may be placed upon the main support and removed at will and while the clamping element is on the upright, the said provisions embodying recesses to receive the impalement elements that are on the main support, some of the recesses being arranged along and opening through the front edge of the supplemental support.

6. In combination, a slicing machine embodyingla main article support, impalement elements projecting thereabove, an upright extending above the support, a clamping element movable upon the upright, a supplemental support with which the clamping element is adapted to cooperate, provisions whereby the supplemental support may be placed upon the main support and removed at will and while the clamping element is on the upright, the'sai'd provisions embodying recesses to receive the impalement ele-.

- ments that are on the main support, some of the recesses being arranged along and open.

ing through the front edge of the supplemental support, and impalement elements carriedby and'projecting above the supple mentalsupport.

7. In combination, a slicing machine em-. bodying a main article support, impalement elements projecting thereabove, an upright extending above the support, a clamping element movable upon the upright, a supplemental support with which the clamping element is adapted to cooperate, provisions whereby the suoplementalsupport may be placed upon the main support and removed at will and while the clamping element is on the upright, the said pro-visions embodying recesses to receive the impalement elements that are on the main support, some of the recesses being arranged along and opening through the front edge of the supplemental support, and means carried by the supple mental support for securing an article thereto. 7

'8. In combination, a slicing machine embodying a-main article support, impalement elements projecting thereabove, an upright extending above the support, a clamplng element movable upon the upright, a supplemental support with which the clamping element'is adapted'to cooperate, provisions whereby the supplemental support may be placed upon the main support and removed at will and while the clamping element is on;

the upright, the said provisions embodying recesses to receive the impalement elements that are on the main support, some of the re cesses being arranged along and openin through the front edge of the supplementzfi support, and handles connected with-thesupplemental support for transporting the same.

9. A freely attachable and removable individual article holder for slicingmachines,

said holder embodying a supporting plate provided with one or more post seats opening through one edge of the plate and having impalement element receiving recesses also openingthrough one edge of the plate.

l0. A freely attachable and removable individual article'holder for slicing machines,

said holder embodying a supporting plate plate provided with one or more post seats 130- opening through one edge of the'plate and having impalement element receiving recesses also opening through one edge of the p%ate, and handles connected with the said p ate.

A freely attachable and removable individual article holder for slicing machines, said holder embodying a supporting plate provided with one or more post seats opening through one edge of the plate and having impalement element receiving recesses also opening through one edge of the plate, said plate being constructed of a single piece of sheet material formed into shape.

13. A freely attachable and removable individual article holder for slicing machines, said holder embodying a supporting plate provided with one or more post seats opening through one edge of the plate and having impalement element receiving recesses also opening through one edge of the plate, said plate being also provided with impalement element receiving openings within the confines of the edges of the plate.

14. A freely attachable and removable individual article holder for slicing machines, said holder embodying a supporting plate provided with one or more upright receiving seats opening through one edge of the plate and having impalement element receiving recesses opening through one edge of the plate, the sides of the plate projecting upwardly from the plate.

15. A freely attachable and removable individual article holder for slicing machines, said holder embodying a supporting plate provided with one or more upright receiving seats opening through one edge of the plate and having impalement element receiving recesses opening through one edge of the plate, the sides of the plate projecting upwardly from the plate, the whole being constructed from a single piece of sheet material, and handles connected with the plate.

16. An individual article holder attachment for slicing machines embodying a supporting plate having a recessed edge, and impalement prongs projecting above the plate all constructed from a single sheet of sheet material.

1'7. An individual article holder attachment for slicing machines embodying a supporting plate having a recessed edge, and prongs cut from said plate and deflected upwardly, the face of some of said prongs being disposed transversely with respect to other of said prongs.

'18. A freely attachable and removable individual article holder for slicing ma-v chines embodying a supporting plate having a recessed edge, means carried by the plate within the confines of the edges thereof and curving upwardly therefrom'for receiving and holding the article, and article impalement elements carried by the plate.

19. A freely attachable and removable individual article holder for slicing machines embodylng a supporting plate havmg a recessed edge, means carried by the plate within the confines of the edges there-' of and curving upwardly therefrom for receiving and holding the article, and article impalement elements carried by the plate, all of said parts being of an integral construction.

20. A freely attachable and removable individual article holder for slicing ma chines embodying a supporting plate having a recessed edge, a portion of the plate being cut and deflected upwardly to form a seat for the article, and prongs cut from the plate and also being deflected upwardly, all of the parts being shaped from a single piece of sheet material.

21. An individual article holder for $116 ing machines embodying a supporting plate, having a recessed edge, and impalement elements carried by the plate, said holder being freely attachable to and removable from a slicing machine and while all of the cooperating parts of the slicing machine are intact.

'22. An individual article holder for slicing machines embodying a supporting plate,

and impalement elements carried by the' will stand transversely with respect to the face of other of the said elements.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, on this Q lth day of January, A. D. 1919. r j

ALFRED M. DEMUTH. 

